happy archduke assassiversary!
can you believe it's been 91 years since archduke ferdinand and his lovely wife susan were assassinated? man, where does the time go?i wanted to give them something, but i was afraid to get the gift wrong- you know how you get gold on your fiftieth and silver on your twenty-fifth and what not? so i consulted the internet, and found this year-by-year guide to anniversary gifts. unfortunately, they only go up to sixty, so i had to do some math and come up with combinations that would fulfill my gift requirement. here are some of the choices:
1. an origami bracelet decorated with diamonds and pearls in the shape of bullets (60 [diamonds]+ 30 [pearls] +1 [paper])
2. 10 pots and a certificate of authenticity (9 [pottery] x 10 + 1 [paper])
3.. a flight of 17 stairs with a heated wrought-iron bar bent to resemble neon, spelling out the phrase "this way to the POWDA KEG! (5 [wood] x 17 + 6 [iron])
4. an elaborate teddy with a steel plated chastity belt, pearls in the shape of an arrow pointing towards the nether regions, elephant tusks over each breast, and copper racing stripes (40[ivory] + 13[lace] + 11[steel] + 7[copper] + 30 [pearls]
5. a piece of reef coral with steel beams and sapphires all jammed up in it (35 [coral or jade] + 45 [sapphires] + 11 [steel])
anyone else want to pitch in?

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